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Where did this box of gold teeth really come from?

The discovery of a box filled with gold teeth in a recently retaken Ukrainian village has been widely discussed on social media.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence was quick to describe photos of the box as evidence of "a torture chamber" in the village of Pisky-Radkivski - without providing evidence to support this claim.

One journalist who has been looking into the origin of these teeth is Paul Ronzheimer, deputy editor-in-chief of the German tabloid 'Bild Zeitung'. He has been reporting from Ukraine since 2014 and thinks the photos were "most probably used to scare people."

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